Yiddishism

• “What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause

• “Steve: What Yiddishism for the male sexual organ was in that list other than “schmeckle”?”

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• “Yiddishism or no Yiddishism, this must count as one of the most affirmative and masculine sentences ever set down.”

  The Great Assimilator

• “Ah-ha, you fell for my clever trap, inserting another Yiddishism into my explanation of the first one.”

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• “Though some noodges will dispute this, in the Yiddishism the oo is pronounced as in look rather than the oo in stooge.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Lieberman used the Yiddishism shtick to mean “comic routine; line of patter.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Having used the Yiddishism noodge, a noun meaning “pest, annoying nag, persistent complainer,” Lieberman went on to confuse the assembled glitterati by using the English verb nudge as if it were interchangeable with the Yiddish noun: “We will nudge you, but we will never become censors.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Synonymous with jerk or the more recent nerd, shnook is an Americanized Yiddishism probably derived from the German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “The use of that apparent Yiddishism in covering an Arab event struck me as amusing.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “The Yiddishism shnook is not derived from German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

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